Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2024

Two years ago, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs' Riyadh-based hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, became the first in the world to reach Stage 7 in four different HIMSS models. (It's recently become a pioneer with some impressive work to reach Stage 6 on another model.) Its advanced use of health information and technology has been a boon for the health system's 1.3 million patients.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 16, 2024

Steward Health Care’s forbearance period ends in less than 15 days. Analysts say this time, creditors are unlikely to extend the embattled company another lifeline.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 15, 2024

Chronic disinvestment and inadequate training have created a shortage of primary care workers. Leaders at the Milbank Memorial Fund, National Association of Community Health Centers and the American Academy of Family Physicians argue for solutions.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 18, 2024

Two years ago, the Kenyan High Court in Malindi decided PAK and Salim Mohammed v. Attorney General et al. , affirming that the constitutional right to abortion is “fundamental.” Approximately 2,600 people lose their lives to unsafe abortion in Kenya each year, with an additional 21,000 people requiring hospitalization. While the Kenyan Constitution, adopted in 2010, allows for abortion when the pregnant person’s life or health is at risk under Article 26(4), the Kenyan Penal Code still criminali

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 16, 2024

A wide-ranging lawsuit filed Friday outlines a moneymaking scheme by which large insurance sales agency call centers enrolled people into Affordable Care Act plans or switched their coverage, all without their permission. According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, two such call centers paid tens of thousands of dollars a day to buy names of people who responded to misleading advertisements touting free government “subsidies” and other

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 17, 2024

Though physicians are quickly growing more comfortable with generative AI, the vast majority expect models to be transparent and trained on credible information, a new

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 16, 2024

UnitedHealth Group drew the ire of federal lawmakers during the first hearing on the fallout surrounding the unprecedented cyberattack on Change Healthcare in late February.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2024

Securing transportation and other needed resources for patients through text messages is one way to ensure health equity for the underserved, says Dr. Emily C. Webber, CMIO at Indiana University Health and 2024 Changemaker Award winner.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 16, 2024

UnitedHealth Group released its first-quarter earnings Tuesday morning as the industry continues to reel from the massive cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit. | UnitedHealth Group released its first-quarter earnings Tuesday morning as the industry continues to reel from the massive cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 16, 2024

Investors on Tuesday got a clearer picture of the cyberattack's financial fallout on the healthcare juggernaut. Some said it wasn't as bad as they'd feared.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

ChatGPT has been making an impact on enduring healthcare challenges. Many providers and patients are reporting the artificial intelligence helping with preventative care and preventing non-emergent emergency department visits. Imran Qureshi is chief technology officer at b.well Connected Health, a FHIR-based interoperability platform vendor. He has expertise in AI and a lot of advice to share on the subject of health systems harnessing ChatGPT and other large language model-based technologies.

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 15, 2024

Hackers reportedly leak contracts and patient records from Change Healthcare cyberattack, including personal and protected health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

When healthcare staff approach a hospital room, it’s important to know basic things about the patient like their preferred language, whether they’re in isolation, or whether they’re not supposed to eat (an NPO order). Traditionally, these facts are handled through physical markers or even buried in the patient record. The “digital white board” and “digital door sign” technologies from eVideon display the necessary information automatically where it’

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 16, 2024

The House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on innovation will hold a hearing Wednesday to discuss data privacy and the protection of kids online. | The House Energy & Commerce Committee holds a legislative hearing to discuss a slate of privacy and online safety bills Wednesday, one of which would give consumers more control over health data collected by apps and big tech.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 12, 2024

Rampant consolidation continues to threaten the existence of independent physicians, according to a new report from Avalere and the Physicians Advocacy Institute.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients.

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 17, 2024

Hackers are selling patient data and business agreements stolen in the Change Healthcare cyberattack, according to cybersecurity researchers.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 18, 2024

Digital Health Intelligence has published its latest NHS Trust Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA) Review, providing a snapshot of DMA scores across trusts.

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FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 14, 2024

Medical records software giant Epic and venture-backed health tech company Particle Health are mired in an ongoing dispute over healthcare data exchange practices. | Health IT experts say the rift between the two companies exposes larger problems with health data exchange including a lack of transparency on who is accessing data and how it's being used along with the need for better gatekeeping.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 17, 2024

Independent practices have clearer financial incentives to lower medical spending than hospitals participating in accountable care organizations, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2024

In an online survey of 100 practicing physicians who work in a large U.S. hospital or health system and use clinical decision support tools, four in five providers – 81% – agreed that generative artificial intelligence can improve care team interactions with patients. The doctors surveyed by Wolter Kluwer also indicated high standards for selecting genAI tools – with 89% reporting they need vendors to be transparent about the sources of CDS data and want to be sure it comes fro

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 16, 2024

Michael Gao, MD, CEO and co-founder of SmarterDx Applying artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in hospitals and health systems can be overwhelming for leaders due to AI’s complexity (it’s not one technology, but several) and rapid proliferation. This is in addition to the usual technology hurdles within healthcare that include data quality and accessibility, interoperability, and clinical validation and adoption.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 18, 2024

ivWatch tech was studied at Frimley Health NHS FT, where it used a predictive algorithm and visible and near-infrared light to detect IV leakage events.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 15, 2024

Virtual mental health startup Cerebral has agreed to pay the government more than $7 million, abide by a “first-of-its-kind” restriction on the handling of consumers’ sensitive information and rewo | The embattled mental health startup had inappropriately shared 3.2 million people's sensitive information, upheld "sloppy security practices" and slow-walked consumers trying to cancel services, the FTC said.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 15, 2024

Meanwhile, Centene, Elevance and Humana held onto statewide contracts. The reprocurement was especially positive for Centene, which had been expected to lose market share, analysts said.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 16, 2024

Payers will not only need to comply with the 2024 CMS Final Rule pertaining to materials and content, but they will need to go the extra mile because it affects star ratings, says Ernie Crawford, president and CEO of Crawford Technologies.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 17, 2024

What You Should Know: – Accenture Federal Services has entered into an agreement to acquire Cognosante , a mission-driven provider of digital transformation and cloud modernization solutions for federal health, defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. – Founded in 2008 by Michele Kang, Cognosante has grown rapidly to become a trusted provider of innovative technology solutions with its federal government clients, including healthcare programs supporting veterans, active-duty mil

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 18, 2024

With the increasing number of technologies that track brain activity, a new Colorado law aims to protect people's "neural data" from falling into the wrong hands, The New York Times reported.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 18, 2024

Federal agencies want to hear from the public about monopolistic and anticompetitive behavior within the healthcare industry. | FTC, DOJ and HHS said that information and accounts received from the public could plant the seeds for formal investigations into healthcare companies' monopolistic or anticompetitive practices.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 18, 2024

Healthcare organizations can create an effective cybersecurity strategy that involves an incident response plan, testing, multifactor authentication and automating mundane tasks using artificial intelligence.

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In this ebook, you will learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding PHI, and how your healthcare teams should securely exchange this data. Key takeaways from this ebook: Gain confidence in identifying PHI. Acquire practical implementation strategies for exchanging PHI within your organization. Emphasize the importance of using compliant communication tools within healthcare teams.